Twenty years ago fell the Berlin Wall. Beyond memory and commemoration, what remains of the Gouve in the Berlin landscape ? An exhibition presented in Paris wonders about “ erasure of traces From the communist past, whether it be the reinforcement of the streets or the destruction of the Palais de la République. Meeting with one of the commissioners of this exhibition.
Illustration: Anonymous, “ 1917 – 1990, end of Soviet experience », 1990. Poster, coll. Bdic.
The images presented in the portfolio at the bottom of the page also come from the exhibition. All rights reserved.
The exhibition “ Berlin: erasure of traces, 1989-2009 »Is presented at the Museum of Contemporary History – Bdic In Paris from October 21 to December 31, 2009. The historian Sonia Combe is one of the commissioners, alongside Thierry Dufrêne and Régine Robin.
Video summary:
- Why did you choose the theme of erasure at the very moment of the commemoration of the fall of the wall ?
- To what extent can we speak of a voluntary policy of eradication of traces ?
- Civil society has mobilized to preserve the urban traces of the past East Germany ?
- The traces and the memory of daily life in Eastern Germany have really disappeared ?
- The traces are fading, but what about the writing of the East German history ?